Fanfiction & Fairytale: Beyond a Hero’s Journey (2025)
A workshop developed for the Culture School Symposium at Central Saint Martins, Beyond the Hero's Journey, was co-developed with and facilitated by Dr Karen David, Jaime Prada, and myself. Drawing inspiration from Le Guin's The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, the workshop collaboratively reimagines the hero's journey as a vessel for holding, nurturing, and gathering. Working in groups, and utilising prompts and chance devices such as dice and cards, we discuss, imagine and produce narratives as zines, posters, diagrams, maps or audio, sharing our outputs.
This workshop moves beyond the linear, conquest-seeking model of the hero’s journey to explore collective, relational and sustaining forms of storytelling that foster decolonisation, counter-hegemony and reimagined narratives.